Re: Using Find with Grep

2004-05-07 Thread Rick Weinbender
thanks man! :-) It works great, and doesn't stop on the first match. -Rick * [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello: > > Try "man grep" at any Unix command line. You might find something > like... > >-L, --files-without-match > Suppress normal output; instead print the name

Re: Using Find with Grep

2004-05-07 Thread kd4d
Hello: Try "man grep" at any Unix command line. You might find something like... -L, --files-without-match Suppress normal output; instead print the name of each input file from which no output would normally have been printed. The scanning wi

Re: Using Find with Grep

2004-05-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 09:21:16AM -0500, Rick Weinbender wrote: > How can I make the following expression display only occurrences that > do NOT contain the searchstring. Is this possible? > > find /home -name *.txt -exec grep searchstring {} \; > > I want to search for the absense of a particu

Using Find with Grep

2004-05-07 Thread Rick Weinbender
How can I make the following expression display only occurrences that do NOT contain the searchstring. Is this possible? find /home -name *.txt -exec grep searchstring {} \; I want to search for the absense of a particular commandline in a user config file. TIA, -Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema